Araiopleura stephani
No picture of Araiopleura stephani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araiopleura stephani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraiopleuraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Araiopleura
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 497 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Araiopleura stephani on record, most of them in the Cambrian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Cwmhesgen Formation · Mawddach Group2
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The named rock units Araiopleura stephani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araiopleura stephani and its relatives
CambrianWhere Araiopleura stephani and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Leptoplastides nodifer2 sites
- Porifera2 sites
- Shumardia alata2 sites
- Acrotretidae1 site
- Broeggeria salteri1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Micragnostus1 site
- Niobella homfreyi homfreyi1 site
- Parabolina (Parabolina) heres1 site
- Parabolinella contracta1 site
- Phakelodus tenuis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Araiopleura stephani, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 2 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Araiopleura stephani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araiopleura stephani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araiopleura stephani was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAraiopleura through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rushton 1982